Latest Projects
Judita’s on-going performance projects and collaborations
Collaboration with Barbara Touati-Evans
This ongoing collaboration, which began in the spring of 2023, is a meeting between two artists: Barbara Touati-Evans, who works with installation and soft sculpture, and Judita Vivas, a movement practitioner and performer.
Barbara uses the traditional craft of crochet to explore the rich metaphorical associations of yarn in human emotions, imagination and language. Her work engages diverse disciplines, including meditation, feminism, mathematics and neuroscience.
Together, we delve into the meeting points between our individual practices, the collisions of stillness and movement, flow and dissonance, imaginary and lived experience.
In October 2023, we collaborated on a response to Jyll Bradley’s sculpture “The Hop” for the Frieze London festival. The resulting performative installation - a large site specific wool structure - crystalised our excitement to continue sharing our practices and experimenting together.
SHIFTY
SHIFTY (2018 - ongoing) is a multi-year creative project of online and in-person performances, original writing, and visual artwork.
It explores multiverse and magic realism, spinning a web of stories about the city, memory, loneliness, creativity, and the natural world. These stories are told by characters who share a block of flats and whose lives collide in unexpected ways. We meet Tadikus (or is it his ghost?) unable to leave his home; a Forgetful Woman who likes oranges and is making a “know-it-all” map; Ms C. Nocturne who is obsessed with plants and jars; a Young Artist; and a shapeshifting Storyteller-Fox who secretly follows all of their journeys.
Created, devised and performed by Foxtale Ensemble, SHIFTY continues to grow as the company works in person and online, organising monthly meetings, intensive residencies, live and online performances, making visual collages and co-writing the book of SHIFTY: A Tale of Tails.
